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From Left to Right:

The layer-cake model of behavior

Timothy Bates & Gary Lewis

(British Journal of Psychology, 2011)

ISSID Maryland

“I can tell you all the properties of a metal bar:Its dimensions, its conductivity, ductility, specificheat, density, and strength… But if you ask mehas it been bent, I have to know whether youdrove over it in a truck or not”

H.J.Eysenck, ISSID, Baltimore, ML, 1993

Personality Systems Model

“There is as yet nothing like an adequatetaxonomy of processes, and creating such ataxonomy should become a priority forpersonality theorists”

–Internet pornography, sex education in public schools, banningabortion and legalised gay marriage, allowing undocumentedimmigrants to stay in the United States, higher taxes for thewealthy, aggressive military response to dangerous foreigngroups, unemployment payments, gun control laws, offshoredrilling, and subsidised healthcare for the poor.

•7-pointLikert

scales;

Alpha =.82

Study 2 Results

What does this mean?

•Personality system model validated

•Values mediate

links topolitical orientation.

Psychological

AdaptationsIndividualising(harm;

fairness)Group(Purity;

Authority;

in-group

)Objective

BiographyWho

did

you

vote

for?External

InﬂuencesCultural

NormsLife

EventsCurrent

EventsMarital

StatusChildrenEmployersPeers/friendsBiological

CapacitiesGenescoding

forneuronal

modularization.Neurotransmittergenes;

(e.g.

DRD4; 5-HTTP;

)Receptorgenes(e.g.

OXT).Gene

Regulators(e.g.

miRNAs);BiologicalPsychologicalBehaviorEvocative

effectsMoral values combined

•Predict

political orientation

•Conservative orientation:

–Valuing order and hierarchy combined with a lowvalue on the treatment of individuals